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Re: cfengine 2.1.7snapshot weirdness with multiple methods


From: Mark . Burgess
Subject: Re: cfengine 2.1.7snapshot weirdness with multiple methods
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:07:36 +0200 (MEST)

This sounds very odd -- hard to believe. Are you sure that
there is not some other explanation for the behaviour?
e.g. locks or classes undefined. What about the very latest
snapshot?

M

On 25 Jun, Sven Mueller wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> While setting up our new cfengine-based Configuration management, we 
> noticed a weirdness with regards to methods. This is an excerpt from our 
> configuration file. The actual method definition has no influence on the 
> behaviour observed.
> 
> --------------- begin config file excerpt -----------------------
> methods:
>  
> InstallLeososPackage(sendmail-8.12.11.tbz2,$(master_cfinput),$(policyhost))
> 
>                  action=InstallLeososPackage.conf
>                  returnvars=null
>                  returnclasses=null
>                  server=localhost
> 
>  
> InstallLeososPackage(cyrus-sasl-2.1.15.tbz2,$(master_cfinput),$(policyhost))
> 
>                  action=InstallLeososPackage.conf
>                  returnvars=null
>                  returnclasses=null
>                  server=localhost
> --------------- begin config file excerpt -----------------------
> 
> This is about the only way it works for us. If we remove the empty lines 
> after the method call (InstallLeososPackage), cfengine only executes the 
> first method definition. We once had it execute two of three methods 
> without the empty lines after the call, but it never executed all 
> methods when the empty lines were missing.
> The variables master_cfinput and policyhost are, of course defined at 
> that point (in the master cf_agent.conf where this config is imported).
> 
> Anyone on here who also observed this behaviour? IMHO this should be 
> considered a bug in the config parser, but I am not sure wether there 
> might be some reasoning behind this behaviour. I guess not.
> 
> cu,
> Sven
> 



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